Verses 480–489

480. There are seven living beings. The eighth (maya) is not living--all the mighty are in anxiety. If thou look into thy thought all words vary. (raving foolery).

481. If after mounting this creature, the horse, he cannot manage him, the tatwa yogee is in trouble. Let him mount the elephant of knowledge.

482. He who closely views the firmament being as a globe and duly observes the moon above it; he who views this well shall find it is for his good.

483. He who builds a house on the open plain (bayalu) and void of discernment wanders confused, is a wretch given up to his lusts. He who knows the (bayalu) open heaven is himself the divinity.

484. Maya, the wife laughing, the husband is weeping (the soul), the wife delights in adultery. That adultery pervades all nature.

485. A wife (maya) who hath no figure loves her husband, a man void of vanity is a stabbing hero, a man who is diseased becomes a soldier of God.

486. Whatever difficulties a man meets with in this world, it is not a place that can be instrumented to the attainment of the next world. Then they are not worthy however closely you view them.

487. How many are they that live on earth, in heaven, and between them has any one the power to count them; those who live are indeed those who die.

488. Though he can teach others and know for himself the instability of the body and the fleeting nature of wealth, he cannot yet attach himself to an adequate (illustrious) devotee and attain real perfection.

489. The sins that a wife commits, do with out fail fall on the husband. Of the good the husband does, half comes to the wife. Why is that we are not told that the sins of the husband also visit the wife.